Fancy new command line tools

In the past years many new command line tools were delveloped. Mostly in rust and go, but sometimes also in other languages like Python. Often they aim at being either * very fast or * more interactive than their old UNIX competitors and * with better support for currently used data formats like JSON

ripgrep

A super fast alternative to grep which I often use is rip grep. It is written in rust and it has got some features which are not that prominent in grep.

rg --type-add 'elegant:*.{lte,ele,log}' -telegant BEND

tig and gitui

Though git itself is also not too old, it suffers from its bad user experience (UX). tig and gitui try to provide a interactive (as in ncurses) user interface. gitui is faster than tig

Others

Other such cool tools include * fd instead of find * mosh instead of ssh * ncdu instead of du * jq for JSON parsing

Editors

• I haven't tested helix yet, but it claims to be a fast terminal text editor somewhere between neovim and VS Code.

Terminals

• warp (ref link) is an AI powered terminal (where you have to register atm). At first this sounds strange, but it is quite convenient to be able to search for common usage of some cli tools. So instead of hitting ^R for your previously used command, you can type `cmd+``. It also features mouse support.